The eastern or mountain bongo. IMHO the most gorgeous antelope in the world, critically endangered and found wild only in one remote region of Kenya. WildTrack is working hard to help expand their range using FIT as a monitoring tool. Our UNC PhD student Margit Bertalan was in Kenya this…
If you’re a tiger tracker at heart but somehow can’t fit that into your 9-5, there’s still a way to be part of all that. Select WildTrack Inc on smile.amazon.com. Amazon will then donate a little to WildTrack each time you shop with them! Probably easier than tiger tracking….and each…
Transferring technology to users on the ground is vital for conservation success. We’re just back from running our second international FIT workshop for cheetah, at the N/a ‘an ku se Wildlife Sanctuary in Namibia. A huge success with eighteen participants from six countries. Special thanks to Chester Zoo, N/a ‘an…
Our WildTrack home page (wildtrack.org) now features a PayPal ‘Donate’ button. It’s easy to make a donation, and every cent really does count, so please consider helping our pioneering work to protect endangered species.
The GuideStar Exchange (guidestar.org) revolutionizes philanthropy by providing information that advances transparency, enables users to make better decisions, and encourages charitable giving. WildTrack has just been awarded GuideStar Gold status, indicating the highest level of transparency. Please consider supporting our work by going to smile.amazon.com and nominating WildTrack as your…
Check out our new web page! With JMP data visualisation software at our core, together we form a transformative multi-disciplinary group, working towards a common goal of providing sustainable techniques to monitor endangered wildlife. https://wildtrack.org/about-us/institutional-associates/
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7013288&isnumber=7013258 Lokare, Namita; Ge, Qian; Snyder, Wesley; Jewell, Zoe; Allibhai, Sky; Lobaton, Edgar, “Manifold learning approach to curve identification with applications to footprint segmentation,” Computational Intelligence for Multimedia, Signal and Vision Processing (CIMSIVP), 2014 IEEE Symposium on , vol., no., pp.1,8, 9-12 Dec. 2014 doi: 10.1109/CIMSIVP.2014.7013288. URL:
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s tiger swims into China and dines out at Chinese chicken farm. Where is she now? http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2014/10/16/putins-tiger-caught-in-the-act/
We’re looking for expert trackers to help us protect mountain lion, using non-invasive FIT to document their footprints and hence their distribution. With our colleague Jonah Evans, from Texas Parks and Wildlife, we’re developing the FIT algorithm to identify and protect areas that mountain lion need to survive.
Poop or Prints? We report in the Duke University Nicholas School blog reports on new technology that will help to monitor Giant Panda, and thus could protect all the other species in their incredibly biodiverse habitat: http://blogs.nicholas.duke.edu/guest/tracking-the-giant-panda/ Panda feces – basically a clump of semi-digested bamboo!
